Cecile was born in 1959, in Sept Isles, Quebec, Canada, the middle of six children (twins). She moved with her family to the United States in 1966. It was a life long dream for her father, who had emigrated from Czechoslovakia. Her mother is from French Canadian descent. She received her B.F.A. from the Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio in 1982, where she graduated President’s List, and her M.F.A. from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in 1986. She had the honor, of receiving the top award in the Graduated Art Department that same year. From graduate school, she went on to teach, full time, at Graceland College, in Lamoni, Iowa, from 1986 to 1989. Her last year there she was unanimously promoted to Assistant Professor.
My Paintings are a way of telling a story, sometimes about people, life lessons, or an ideal view of the world. Whether it’s an abstract, a figure, or an octopus, I enjoy creating relationships between shapes and negative space. Often composing the figure in impossible anatomical poses, in order to achieve a specific shape. I love using color, pattern, hand stenciled collage papers, and composition gold leaf.
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